UK News

2025

Daily Mail September 2025: I had a baby using free sperm from Facebook… there’s a harrowing reason why I don’t recommend it

Channel 4 News September 2025: Wrong genetic info given to people born by sperm donation

The Telegraph June 2025: At 41, I found out I was the child of a sperm donor, not my dad

Sky News June 2025: 23andMe fined millions by UK watchdog over ‘profoundly damaging’ cyber attack

Progress Educational Trust May 2025: UK Government postpones surrogacy law reform

2024

Progress Educational Trust Oct 2024: Donor conception is for life – Who cares? Who pays? Whose rights matter?

The Guardian Aug 2024: UK sperm donations being exported despite 10-family limit

The Guardian Aug 2024: ‘You feel a bit mass-produced’: donor-conceived people on the export of UK sperm

The Guardian Aug 2024: Rise in DNA tests being used to claim citizenship of other countries

Independent June 2024: ‘I wish I was 3 years younger so I could legally find out my egg donor mother’s details’

2023

Telegraph Nov 2023: Children conceived by donor should know who their biological parents are 

The Guardian Nov 2023: Egg and sperm donors in UK to lose right to anonymity at birth under new plans

The Sunday Times Oct 2023: Meet the 18-year-olds about to discover their biological fathers

The Independent Oct 2023: I found out I was conceived using donor sperm… my life collapsed like a Jenga tower

The Independent Sept 2023: People born by donor eggs or sperm will be able to find out biological origins

Express.co.uk July 2023: ‘I grew up thinking my dad died when I was a child but my mum had kept a secret for years’

iNews March 2023: ‘After 60 years, I discovered I was a sperm donor baby. Then I uncovered my 600 half siblings’

Telegraph March 2023: I was fathered by a super sperm donor – and I might have hundreds of siblings

2021

The Guardian Sept 2021: The great sperm heist: ‘They were playing with people’s lives’

2019

BBC Oct 2019: Sperm donors should waive anonymity, fertility regulator says

2015

BBC September 2015: UK national sperm bank has just nine donors

2011

The Guardian Nov 2011: Donor-conception: ‘I’d got to the bottom of a secret’ (Christine Whipp)

2008

The Guardian Nov 2008: ‘I could have 300 siblings’ (Jo Rose)

2007

The Guardian Jan 2007: My father, Mr X

2006

The Guardian April 2006: Cruel cost of the human egg trade

2002

The Guardian May 2002: Give me my own history (David Gollancz)

The Guardian Jan 2002: Your daddy was a donor (Christine Whipp)

1999

The Independent July 1999: I’m a product of science fiction. I should not have been born (Christine Whipp)